Posts tagged Misc
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Hiro’s U-Stor-It
In the book Snow Crash, Hiro Protagonist (the protagonist, of course) lives in a U-Stor-It, a storage facility. There’s a building in Oakland, right next to Interstate 880, right at a curve positioned in a way that made it very visible from either direction. Keep reading…
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Reaper Mall
Actually, it turns out there’s quite a lot to say about How Cities Work and Reaper Man. In Reaper Man, a mysterious set of snow globes appears in Ankh-Morpork, followed by metal shopping carts. A character realizes that if cities are like life forms - large, slow moving life forms - then there would evolve parasites to prey upon them, just as other long-lived life… Keep reading…
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Marshall and Pratchett
I started reading How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken by Alex Marshall on the plane. (I also started reading Reaper Man, but there’s not much to say about that other than that Terry Pratchett is hilarious and you should read his books). Keep reading…